Mountain weather and climate, Roger G. Barry, Methuen, London, 1981, No. of pages; 313. Rice: £17.50

✍ Scribed by Ashwell, Ian Y.

• Book ID: 102387851
• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1982
• Weight: 125 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 2314-6214
• DOI: 10.1002/joc.3370020314

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papers on this subject. He has also managed to go beyond a simple recitation of the results of other people's work. In general we receive a useful and critical comparison of the literature. The evolution of ideas about the theory of each aspect is also very well argued and presented. The opening section on 'the meso-scale' is a little weak as meso-scale theory is mainly based upon the primitive equations of motion which would be valid at the macro-scale too. However for readers not well-versed in these equations the section should provide a useful introduction as long as they are aware that it is the ageostrophic component that is often so important in meso-scale circulations.